Websites
http://www.septemberindustry.co.uk/
http://www.pentagram.com/offices/
http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog
http://www.experimentaljetset.com/archive/helvetica-gary-hustwit.html
http://www.theconsult.com/work/
http://www.aisleone.net/
http://www.huntstudio.com.au/
http://www.behance.net/?content=projects&search=typography
http://ilovetypography.com/
http://heystudio.es
http://wearebuild.com
http://www.ilovedust.com
http://www.babeldesign.com
http://www.pentagram.com/work/#/all/all/newest/
http://www.uppercasegallery.ca/
http://afom.com.au/projects/all
>http://typophile.com/
http://typographica.org/
http://lovelystationery.com/
Books
Making and Breaking the Grid, Samara. T
Studio Culture: The secret life of the graphic design studio, Shaughnessy. A
Logo, Evamy. M
Desingers' Identities, Farrelly. F
Grid Systems in Graphic Design: A Handbook for Graphic Artists, Typographers, and Exhibition Designers, Muller-Brockmann. J
Los Logos: Compass, Klanten. R
Typomag, Meseguer. L
This obviously isn't everything, I've tried to be selective.
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Beautician website research
- very floral
- generally very girly
- doesn't appeal to a wide audience
- looks cheap & tacky
- not very well considered
I really don't want to go down the whole pink and girly look, I think it's too much. I think something more sophisticated would be much better.
Cafe website research
I thought it was necessary to look into how other cafes present themselves online and how they bring in customers. I think it might be a good idea to show a recent offer or something on the home page.
Context book inspiration
In order to push my concept to its full potential I intend not to over complicate it and make it very visual.
When thinking of a book that I would pick up off the shelf, it would not be something full of interviews and text, i wouldn't read it. Id want something visual to look through.
When thinking of a book that I would pick up off the shelf, it would not be something full of interviews and text, i wouldn't read it. Id want something visual to look through.
Dalton Maag.
Joe suggested I have a look at Dalton Maag type posters. I couldn't find many images of them on the internet, but the one I did find shows how great they really are.
I love the way they showcase specific letterforms rather than the whole typeface. Definitely something to consider for my type design brief.
I love the way they showcase specific letterforms rather than the whole typeface. Definitely something to consider for my type design brief.
Process
'The first in a series of special edition Process publications, printed in only black on lightweight 70gsm Bond, Process 4.5 purposely contrasts the usual high production qualities of the quarterly journal, as well acting as a platform to experiment with different formats and production techniques. The publication’s content is a reflection and retrospective of the first four editions of Process Journal. Consisting of three major parts, the first a comprehensive essay written by typographer and design-lecturer Brad Haylock. The second a typographic analysis of each of the typefaces featured in editions one to four, including type samples and specimens. And finally, we asked a selection of contributors from editions one to four the simple question: ‘what is your process’. Including responses from Brett Phillips (3 Deep Design), Michael C. Place (Build), Mason Wells (Bibliothèque), Tom Crabtree (Manual),Tony Brook (Spin) and more.'
Mobilrabatten
Another project from Lundgren+Lindqvist
'Mobilrabatten, the Mobile Phone Discount, is a newly founded company but the founders all have long experience in software development. Their latest product is an application for both iPhone and mobile phones with Android. The application contains discount offers from stores, restaurants and other businesses that can be sorted either geologically, finding discounts close to you by using your phones GPS, or by browsing different categories.
What makes the application unique is the fact that all businesses and discount offers are connected to a local sports team and by using the application to claim your discount a part of the profit is donated to that team. This creates a win-win situation where you get a discount and support your team. At the same time the local business owner attract customers by showing his or her support for a specific team.
We were approached by Mobilrabatten to design their identity, which use the rounded square shape of an iPhone application icon to emphasize the nature of the product. The initial ‘m’ and the ‘r’ (initial letter of the second stem of the compound) are joined in a ligature that reads ‘mr’ and creates a strong, memorable mark. We also designed basic stationary and a map of Sweden made up of lots of mr:s.'
'Mobilrabatten, the Mobile Phone Discount, is a newly founded company but the founders all have long experience in software development. Their latest product is an application for both iPhone and mobile phones with Android. The application contains discount offers from stores, restaurants and other businesses that can be sorted either geologically, finding discounts close to you by using your phones GPS, or by browsing different categories.
What makes the application unique is the fact that all businesses and discount offers are connected to a local sports team and by using the application to claim your discount a part of the profit is donated to that team. This creates a win-win situation where you get a discount and support your team. At the same time the local business owner attract customers by showing his or her support for a specific team.
We were approached by Mobilrabatten to design their identity, which use the rounded square shape of an iPhone application icon to emphasize the nature of the product. The initial ‘m’ and the ‘r’ (initial letter of the second stem of the compound) are joined in a ligature that reads ‘mr’ and creates a strong, memorable mark. We also designed basic stationary and a map of Sweden made up of lots of mr:s.'
Loft
Lundgren + Lindqvis
'Loft Investments is an exclusive holding company constructing new financial products that are better suited for the future than the conventional counterparts. Utilizing many years of experience within different parts of the financial sector they have developed a method of gaining more profit for investors through taking a higher, yet calculated, risk within the option.
Loft approached us to design their identity, stationery, website as well as digital presentation material. In a highly conservative market Loft needed an identity that, with subtle quirkiness, would separate them from the bulk without scaring anyone off. The logotype was designed in a constructed manner corresponding with the nature of Loft's approach when developing new products. A bold graphical approach, with bright colours, strong typography and use of infographics, was chosen in order to establish a feel of trust and illustrate the steady hands (or analytic minds) of the individuals steering the company.'
'Loft Investments is an exclusive holding company constructing new financial products that are better suited for the future than the conventional counterparts. Utilizing many years of experience within different parts of the financial sector they have developed a method of gaining more profit for investors through taking a higher, yet calculated, risk within the option.
Loft approached us to design their identity, stationery, website as well as digital presentation material. In a highly conservative market Loft needed an identity that, with subtle quirkiness, would separate them from the bulk without scaring anyone off. The logotype was designed in a constructed manner corresponding with the nature of Loft's approach when developing new products. A bold graphical approach, with bright colours, strong typography and use of infographics, was chosen in order to establish a feel of trust and illustrate the steady hands (or analytic minds) of the individuals steering the company.'
Graphic Design quotes
http://designwashere.com/80-inspiring-quotes-about-design/
Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.
— Charles Eames
Everything is designed. Few things are designed well.
— Brian Reed
There is no design without discipline. There is no discipline without intelligence.
— Massimo Vignelli
People ignore design that ignores people.
— Frank Chimero
I’ve always held to the belief that the practice of creating compelling graphic design occurs not by employing the principals of a democracy, but rather, that of a monarchy.
— Thomas Vasquez
Good design is obvious. Great design is transparent.
— Joe Sparano
Every designers’ dirty little secret is that they copy other designers’ work. They see work they like, and they imitate it. Rather cheekily, they call this inspiration.
— Aaron Russell
The most innovative designers consciously reject the standard option box and cultivate an appetite for thinking wrong.
— Marty Neumeier
Visual design is often the polar opposite of engineering: trading hard edges for subjective decisions based on gut feelings and personal experiences. It’s messy, unpredictable, and notoriously hard to measure. The apparently erratic behavior of artists drives engineers bananas. Their decisions seem arbitrary and risk everything with no guaranteed benefit.
— Scott Stevenson
Design is where science and art break even.
— Robin Mathew
Good design goes to heaven; bad design goes everywhere.
— Mieke Gerritzen
A designer is a planner with an aesthetic sense.
— Bruno Munari
Design is the application of intent - the opposite of happenstance, and an antidote to accident.
— Robert L. Peters
Design is the search for a magical balance between business and art; art and craft; intuition and reason; concept and detail; playfulness and formality; client and designer; designer and printer; and printer and public.
— Valerie Pettis
Design should never say, “Look at me.” It should always say, “Look at this.”
— David Craib
Bad design is smoke, while good design is a mirror.
— Juan-Carlos Fernàndez
Don’t design for everyone. It’s impossible. All you end up doing is designing something that makes everyone unhappy.
— Leisa Reichelt
Design is as much an act of spacing as an act of marking.
— Ellen Lupton
The design process, at its best, integrates the aspirations of art, science, and culture.
— Jeff Smith
Good design is a lot like clear thinking made visual.
— Edward Tufte
Design is intelligence made visible.
— Alina Wheeler
Math is easy; design is hard.
— Jeffrey Veen
Design is the conscious effort to impose a meaningful order.
— Victor Papanek
Design trends online change more often than the wind, and slightly less often than my socks.
— Suleiman Leadbitter
Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it’s decoration.
— Jeffrey Zeldman
People think that design is styling. Design is not style. It’s not about giving shape to the shell and not giving a damn about the guts. Good design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive science, human need, and beauty to produce something that the world didn’t know it was missing.
— Paola Antonelli
Design is an opportunity to continue telling the story, not just to sum everything up.
— Tate Linden
Design is not the narrow application of formal skills, it is a way of thinking.
— Chris Pullman
Designers are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
— Fabien Barral
Design is about making things good (and then better) and right (and fantastic) for the people who use and encounter them.
— Matt Beale
Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.
— Steve Jobs
I’m convinced that without bad design, the world would be a far less stimulating place; we would have nothing to marvel over and nothing to be nostalgic about.
— Carrie Phillips
Behavioral design is all about feeling in control. Includes: usability, understanding, but also the feel.
— Don Norman
Good design must be defined by appropriateness to audience and goals, and by its effectiveness, not by its adherence to Swiss design or the number of awards it wins.
— Drew Davies
Being a famous designer is like being a famous dentist.
— Noreen Morioka
Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future.
— Robert L. Peters
It’s art if can’t be explained.
It’s fashion if no one asks for an explanation.
It’s design if it doesn’t need explanation.
— Wouter Stokkel
You can’t do better design with a computer, but you can speed up your work enormously.
— Wim Crouwel
I love the comment, “You must love designing for a living.” At that point I usually start to laugh or break into uncontrollable tears.
— Andrew Lewis
The dumbest mistake is viewing design as something you do at the end of the process to ‘tidy up’ the mess, as opposed to understanding it’s a ‘day one’ issue and part of everything.
— Tom Peters
Designers have a dual duty; contractually to their clients and morally to the later users and recipients of their work.
— Hans Höger
Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.
— Milton Glaser
I find modernist design boring, but it so much faster!
— Christine Suewon Lee
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
— Douglas Adams
A camel is a horse designed by a committee.
— Sir Alec Issigonis
A designer can mull over complicated designs for months. Then suddenly the simple, elegant, beautiful solution occurs to him. When it happens to you, it feels as if God is talking! And maybe He is.
— Leo Frankowski
For me, design is like choosing what I’m going to wear for the day - only much more complicated and not really the same at all.
— Robynne Raye
Design is a means toward accomplishing the end goals of serving markets and generating profits. Furthermore, design is an element in social responsibility. Good design allows “form to complement performance.” The way things look is not irrelevant to the way things work: how they work is how they should look.
— Thomas F. Schutte
Art is like masturbation. It is selfish and introverted and done for you and you alone. Design is like sex. There is someone else involved, their needs are just as important as your own, and if everything goes right, both parties are happy in the end.
— Colin Wright
Many desperate acts of design (including gradients, drop shadows, and the gratuitous use of transparency) are perpetuated in the absence of a strong concept. A good idea provides a framework for design decisions, guiding the work.
— Noreen Morioka
I would show my my jobs to my mother, and she would always say the same thing: “That’s nice dear.” And then she would say, “Did you write it?” or “Did you do the drawing?” or “Did you take the pictures?” I’d always answer “no,” then I realized the problem. My answer was then, “I made this happen. It’s called design.”
— Brian Webb
Most [clients] expect experience design to be a discrete activity, solving all their problems with a single functional specification or a single research study. It must be an ongoing effort, a process of continually learning about users, responding to their behaviors, and evolving the product or service.
— Dan Brown
Technology over technique produces emotionless design.
— Daniel Mall
I think design covers so much more than the aesthetic. Design is fundamentally more. Design is usability. It is Information Architecture. It is Accessibility. This is all design.
— Mark Boulton
A design isn’t finished until somebody is using it.
— Brenda Laurel
The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against the ugliness.
— Massimo Vignelli
If design isn’t profitable, then it’s art.
— Henrik Fiskar
Good design is all about making other designers feel like idiots because that idea wasn’t theirs.
— Frank Chimero
A well-designed text will seem weightless after a time; the initial feel of the book fades away as the mind becomes engrossed in the words.
— Mandy Brown
Graphic design will save the world right after rock and roll does.
— David Carson
The difference between a Designer and Developer, when it comes to design skills, is the difference between shooting a bullet and throwing it.
— Scott Hanselman
Practice safe design: Use a concept.
— Petrula Vrontikis
Create your own visual style… let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
— Orson Welles
Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended.
— Raymond Loewy
Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.
— Eliel Saarinen
Truly elegant design incorporates top-notch functionality into a simple, uncluttered form.
— David Lewis
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
— Antoine de Saint Exupéry
Designers think everything done by someone else is awful, and that they could do it better themselves, which explains why I designed my own living room carpet, I suppose.
— Chris Bangle
It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.
— Steve Jobs
At a meta level, design connects the dots between mere survival and humanism.
— Erik Adigard
To say that something is designed means it has intentions that go beyond its function. Otherwise it’s just planning.
— Ayse Birsel
— Ivan Chermayeff
No design works unless it embodies ideas that are held common by the people for whom the object is intended.
— Adrian Forty
Many things difficult to design prove easy to perform.
— Samuel Johnson
The designer is a visually literate person, just as an editor is expected by training and inclination to be versed in language and literature, but to call the former an artist by occupation is as absurd as to refer to the latter as a poet.
— Douglas Martin
Questions about whether design is necessary or affordable are quite beside the point: design is inevitable. The alternative to good design is bad design, not no design at all. Everyone makes design decisions all the time without realizing it—like Moliere’s M. Jourdain who discovered he had been speaking prose all his life—and good design is simply the result of making these decisions consciously, at the right stage, and in consultation with others as the need arises.
— Douglas Martin
Design is easy. All you do is stare at the screen until drops of blood form on your forehead.
— Marty Neumeier
The only important thing about design is how it relates to people.
— Victor Papanek
Our opportunity, as designers, is to learn how to handle the complexity, rather than shy away from it, and to realize that the big art of design is to make complicated things simple.
— Tim Parsey
The public is more familiar with bad design than good design. It is, in effect, conditioned to prefer bad design, because that is what it lives with. He new becomes threatening, the old reassuring.
— Paul Rand
Art is an idea that has found its perfect visual expression. And design is the vehicle by which this expression is made possible. Art is a noun, and design is a noun and also a verb. Art is a product and design is a process. Design is the foundation of all the arts.
— Paul Rand
Designing a product is designing a relationship.
— Steve Rogers
It is easy to fail when designing an interactive experience. Designers fail when they do not know the audience, integrate the threads of content and context, welcome the public properly, or make clear what the experience is and what the audience’s role in it will be.
— Edwin Schlossberg
Good design is good business.
— Thomas J. Watson Jr.
Great design will not sell an inferior product, but it will enable a great product to achieve its maximum potential.
— Thomas J. Watson Jr.
…designers can make life more bearable by producing stuff that touches its audience rather than fucks them in the head.
— Jon Wozencraft
Design is in everything we make, but it’s also between those things. It’s a mix of craft, science, storytelling, propaganda, and philosophy.
— Erik Adigard
I never design a building before I’ve seen the site and met the people who will be using it.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
The fundamental failure of most graphic, product, architectural, and even urban design is its insistence on serving the God of Looking-Good rather than the God of Being-Good.
— Richard Saul Wurman
Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.
— Charles Eames
Everything is designed. Few things are designed well.
— Brian Reed
There is no design without discipline. There is no discipline without intelligence.
— Massimo Vignelli
People ignore design that ignores people.
— Frank Chimero
I’ve always held to the belief that the practice of creating compelling graphic design occurs not by employing the principals of a democracy, but rather, that of a monarchy.
— Thomas Vasquez
Good design is obvious. Great design is transparent.
— Joe Sparano
Every designers’ dirty little secret is that they copy other designers’ work. They see work they like, and they imitate it. Rather cheekily, they call this inspiration.
— Aaron Russell
The most innovative designers consciously reject the standard option box and cultivate an appetite for thinking wrong.
— Marty Neumeier
Visual design is often the polar opposite of engineering: trading hard edges for subjective decisions based on gut feelings and personal experiences. It’s messy, unpredictable, and notoriously hard to measure. The apparently erratic behavior of artists drives engineers bananas. Their decisions seem arbitrary and risk everything with no guaranteed benefit.
— Scott Stevenson
Design is where science and art break even.
— Robin Mathew
Good design goes to heaven; bad design goes everywhere.
— Mieke Gerritzen
A designer is a planner with an aesthetic sense.
— Bruno Munari
Design is the application of intent - the opposite of happenstance, and an antidote to accident.
— Robert L. Peters
Design is the search for a magical balance between business and art; art and craft; intuition and reason; concept and detail; playfulness and formality; client and designer; designer and printer; and printer and public.
— Valerie Pettis
Design should never say, “Look at me.” It should always say, “Look at this.”
— David Craib
Bad design is smoke, while good design is a mirror.
— Juan-Carlos Fernàndez
Don’t design for everyone. It’s impossible. All you end up doing is designing something that makes everyone unhappy.
— Leisa Reichelt
Design is as much an act of spacing as an act of marking.
— Ellen Lupton
The design process, at its best, integrates the aspirations of art, science, and culture.
— Jeff Smith
Good design is a lot like clear thinking made visual.
— Edward Tufte
Design is intelligence made visible.
— Alina Wheeler
Math is easy; design is hard.
— Jeffrey Veen
Design is the conscious effort to impose a meaningful order.
— Victor Papanek
Design trends online change more often than the wind, and slightly less often than my socks.
— Suleiman Leadbitter
Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it’s decoration.
— Jeffrey Zeldman
People think that design is styling. Design is not style. It’s not about giving shape to the shell and not giving a damn about the guts. Good design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive science, human need, and beauty to produce something that the world didn’t know it was missing.
— Paola Antonelli
Design is an opportunity to continue telling the story, not just to sum everything up.
— Tate Linden
Design is not the narrow application of formal skills, it is a way of thinking.
— Chris Pullman
Designers are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
— Fabien Barral
Design is about making things good (and then better) and right (and fantastic) for the people who use and encounter them.
— Matt Beale
Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.
— Steve Jobs
I’m convinced that without bad design, the world would be a far less stimulating place; we would have nothing to marvel over and nothing to be nostalgic about.
— Carrie Phillips
Behavioral design is all about feeling in control. Includes: usability, understanding, but also the feel.
— Don Norman
Good design must be defined by appropriateness to audience and goals, and by its effectiveness, not by its adherence to Swiss design or the number of awards it wins.
— Drew Davies
Being a famous designer is like being a famous dentist.
— Noreen Morioka
Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future.
— Robert L. Peters
It’s art if can’t be explained.
It’s fashion if no one asks for an explanation.
It’s design if it doesn’t need explanation.
— Wouter Stokkel
You can’t do better design with a computer, but you can speed up your work enormously.
— Wim Crouwel
I love the comment, “You must love designing for a living.” At that point I usually start to laugh or break into uncontrollable tears.
— Andrew Lewis
The dumbest mistake is viewing design as something you do at the end of the process to ‘tidy up’ the mess, as opposed to understanding it’s a ‘day one’ issue and part of everything.
— Tom Peters
Designers have a dual duty; contractually to their clients and morally to the later users and recipients of their work.
— Hans Höger
Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.
— Milton Glaser
I find modernist design boring, but it so much faster!
— Christine Suewon Lee
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
— Douglas Adams
A camel is a horse designed by a committee.
— Sir Alec Issigonis
A designer can mull over complicated designs for months. Then suddenly the simple, elegant, beautiful solution occurs to him. When it happens to you, it feels as if God is talking! And maybe He is.
— Leo Frankowski
For me, design is like choosing what I’m going to wear for the day - only much more complicated and not really the same at all.
— Robynne Raye
Design is a means toward accomplishing the end goals of serving markets and generating profits. Furthermore, design is an element in social responsibility. Good design allows “form to complement performance.” The way things look is not irrelevant to the way things work: how they work is how they should look.
— Thomas F. Schutte
Art is like masturbation. It is selfish and introverted and done for you and you alone. Design is like sex. There is someone else involved, their needs are just as important as your own, and if everything goes right, both parties are happy in the end.
— Colin Wright
Many desperate acts of design (including gradients, drop shadows, and the gratuitous use of transparency) are perpetuated in the absence of a strong concept. A good idea provides a framework for design decisions, guiding the work.
— Noreen Morioka
I would show my my jobs to my mother, and she would always say the same thing: “That’s nice dear.” And then she would say, “Did you write it?” or “Did you do the drawing?” or “Did you take the pictures?” I’d always answer “no,” then I realized the problem. My answer was then, “I made this happen. It’s called design.”
— Brian Webb
Most [clients] expect experience design to be a discrete activity, solving all their problems with a single functional specification or a single research study. It must be an ongoing effort, a process of continually learning about users, responding to their behaviors, and evolving the product or service.
— Dan Brown
Technology over technique produces emotionless design.
— Daniel Mall
I think design covers so much more than the aesthetic. Design is fundamentally more. Design is usability. It is Information Architecture. It is Accessibility. This is all design.
— Mark Boulton
A design isn’t finished until somebody is using it.
— Brenda Laurel
The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against the ugliness.
— Massimo Vignelli
If design isn’t profitable, then it’s art.
— Henrik Fiskar
Good design is all about making other designers feel like idiots because that idea wasn’t theirs.
— Frank Chimero
A well-designed text will seem weightless after a time; the initial feel of the book fades away as the mind becomes engrossed in the words.
— Mandy Brown
Graphic design will save the world right after rock and roll does.
— David Carson
The difference between a Designer and Developer, when it comes to design skills, is the difference between shooting a bullet and throwing it.
— Scott Hanselman
Practice safe design: Use a concept.
— Petrula Vrontikis
Create your own visual style… let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
— Orson Welles
Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended.
— Raymond Loewy
Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.
— Eliel Saarinen
Truly elegant design incorporates top-notch functionality into a simple, uncluttered form.
— David Lewis
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
— Antoine de Saint Exupéry
Designers think everything done by someone else is awful, and that they could do it better themselves, which explains why I designed my own living room carpet, I suppose.
— Chris Bangle
It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.
— Steve Jobs
At a meta level, design connects the dots between mere survival and humanism.
— Erik Adigard
To say that something is designed means it has intentions that go beyond its function. Otherwise it’s just planning.
— Ayse Birsel
— Ivan Chermayeff
No design works unless it embodies ideas that are held common by the people for whom the object is intended.
— Adrian Forty
Many things difficult to design prove easy to perform.
— Samuel Johnson
The designer is a visually literate person, just as an editor is expected by training and inclination to be versed in language and literature, but to call the former an artist by occupation is as absurd as to refer to the latter as a poet.
— Douglas Martin
Questions about whether design is necessary or affordable are quite beside the point: design is inevitable. The alternative to good design is bad design, not no design at all. Everyone makes design decisions all the time without realizing it—like Moliere’s M. Jourdain who discovered he had been speaking prose all his life—and good design is simply the result of making these decisions consciously, at the right stage, and in consultation with others as the need arises.
— Douglas Martin
Design is easy. All you do is stare at the screen until drops of blood form on your forehead.
— Marty Neumeier
The only important thing about design is how it relates to people.
— Victor Papanek
Our opportunity, as designers, is to learn how to handle the complexity, rather than shy away from it, and to realize that the big art of design is to make complicated things simple.
— Tim Parsey
The public is more familiar with bad design than good design. It is, in effect, conditioned to prefer bad design, because that is what it lives with. He new becomes threatening, the old reassuring.
— Paul Rand
Art is an idea that has found its perfect visual expression. And design is the vehicle by which this expression is made possible. Art is a noun, and design is a noun and also a verb. Art is a product and design is a process. Design is the foundation of all the arts.
— Paul Rand
Designing a product is designing a relationship.
— Steve Rogers
It is easy to fail when designing an interactive experience. Designers fail when they do not know the audience, integrate the threads of content and context, welcome the public properly, or make clear what the experience is and what the audience’s role in it will be.
— Edwin Schlossberg
Good design is good business.
— Thomas J. Watson Jr.
Great design will not sell an inferior product, but it will enable a great product to achieve its maximum potential.
— Thomas J. Watson Jr.
…designers can make life more bearable by producing stuff that touches its audience rather than fucks them in the head.
— Jon Wozencraft
Design is in everything we make, but it’s also between those things. It’s a mix of craft, science, storytelling, propaganda, and philosophy.
— Erik Adigard
I never design a building before I’ve seen the site and met the people who will be using it.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
The fundamental failure of most graphic, product, architectural, and even urban design is its insistence on serving the God of Looking-Good rather than the God of Being-Good.
— Richard Saul Wurman
All about tea
Great conceptual piece from Moving Brands in London.
Using the texture of tea to create the identity is definitely different, it gives the piece more context and creates an interesting piece of design.
Using the texture of tea to create the identity is definitely different, it gives the piece more context and creates an interesting piece of design.
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Emelyanovsky branding
Really interesting brand identity from Province Studio based in Russia.
'The task was to develop a logo for an agro-cultural complex that specializes in raising vegetables such as potato, cucumber and tomato.'
'The task was to develop a logo for an agro-cultural complex that specializes in raising vegetables such as potato, cucumber and tomato.'
Jefferson Sheard Architects
Identity design by Peter & Paul based in Sheffield.
'The identity and model photography were applied rigorously to all printed and digital internal communications. We designed some nice presentation folders and CDRs.
We designed and helped the client populate the site. We got Rocket on board to handle the site build, knowing that JSA needed a simple intuitive CMS system with a minimum of training. A big site, with a lot of scope, ripe for development into a core part of their marketing arsenal
Launching a new identity is sometimes tricky to manage, especially when your practice runs from several offices across the country, so making sure that all staff are on board is vital. We designed these simple presentation packs with nice little Perspex models for 120 staff across all five offices. We also produced and delivered a digital presentation to showcase the new identity.'
'The identity and model photography were applied rigorously to all printed and digital internal communications. We designed some nice presentation folders and CDRs.
We designed and helped the client populate the site. We got Rocket on board to handle the site build, knowing that JSA needed a simple intuitive CMS system with a minimum of training. A big site, with a lot of scope, ripe for development into a core part of their marketing arsenal
Launching a new identity is sometimes tricky to manage, especially when your practice runs from several offices across the country, so making sure that all staff are on board is vital. We designed these simple presentation packs with nice little Perspex models for 120 staff across all five offices. We also produced and delivered a digital presentation to showcase the new identity.'
Louise Campbell studio
'StudioMakgill is an independent design studio. We work with businesses and cultural organisations, large and small. Our focus is on the creation of brand identities and visual communication for a broad and discerning clientele.
Our philosophy is simple: to create succinct, innovative, beautiful solutions. Solutions that last, that inspire and that enable our clients to realise their ambitions.'
Our philosophy is simple: to create succinct, innovative, beautiful solutions. Solutions that last, that inspire and that enable our clients to realise their ambitions.'
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